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alex
alex

Reputation: 7601

How to remove the .html part of the URL on Azure?

Say, I want to turn this: www.example.com/homepage.html to this www.example.com/homepage

What should I change in my Azure portal or config in order to achieve this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1113

Answers (1)

Lorenzo Montanari
Lorenzo Montanari

Reputation: 968

You could place this block of code in your web.config file.

<rewrite>
    <rules>
        <rule name="Hide .html ext">
             <match ignoreCase="true" url="^(.*)"/>
             <conditions>
                 <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true"/>
                 <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true"/>
                 <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html" matchType="IsFile"/>
             </conditions>
             <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:0}.html"/>
        </rule>
        <rule name="Redirecting .html ext" stopProcessing="true">
            <match url="^(.*).html"/>
            <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
                 <add input="{URL}" pattern="(.*).html"/>
             </conditions>
            <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}"/>
         </rule>
   </rules>
</rewrite>

This will remove the .html extension from every html file. So, for example, if you open a file called index.html it would be shown as index and if you request the file index it will be shown the index.html file (the extension will not be shown).

This works both on Azure and on IIS, so if in a future you would move to IIS, you could do without changing anything.

I hope i helped you.

Upvotes: 3

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